The Explosion of The Phat Lump is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Phat the Phatty with an iron fist, and notable for its fear of technology, compulsory military service, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.392 billion Phat Lumpians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order and Spirituality are also considered important, while Education and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Boom Under Phat. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Phat Lumpian economy, worth a remarkable 2,339 trillion Phat Lumps a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 316,439 Phat Lumps, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Musicians are often arrested for saying "oh my God", men who wear pink are seen as dangerously unmanly, bombs make good ploughs, and knitters are arrested for carrying needles in their bags. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. The Phat Lump's national animal is the Phatty, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Phattism.

The Phat Lump is ranked 337,006^th in the world and 16,693^rd in Balder for Most Cultured, scoring -67 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.